Stubborn As A Problem Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	adjective satellite • making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe • used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots • highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious • tangled in knots or snarls
	34%	8		Nickname for stubborn or stubborn-minded people
	noun • A California fish (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), allied to the sculpin.
	28%	13		A pattern in which the solution to a problem creates another problem, leading back to the original problem
	noun • one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first • an argument that assumes that which is to be proved

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New York Times24 Oct 2002	Across 24
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